Trash the Throw Away Economy - Join The Repair Revolution.

You know the saying; "if it's not broke, don't fix it"? In today's society, we aren't fixing things even if they are broke. I always hear people say how products are made dinky on purpose these days to break sooner because companies want you to keep buying new ones. But what if you actually started learning how to repair things that break?

My Pops was a self taught everything-man. One of the things he could do was take things apart, put them back together, and get broken things working again. He had a basic understanding of how things worked from reading, and learned the rest by taking things apart. There is an older generation of people still using old things around the home for years, because they still work. Things were either built to last or patched up when it needed patching up....

How to Save Food, Resources, Money and Address Hunger.

We already know that we throw away a lot of food. How many times a month do you clean out your fridge of bad leftovers? Ever see people not finish a meal at a restaurant and just leave the rest behind? Have you thought about how much expired produce is rotting in the dumpster behind your local supermarket and how many franchise eateries throw out the unsold food at the end of the day?

We aren't just wasting food by doing this, we are wasting all of the resources and energy that has gone into the  production of the food. Not to mention, if you check out the infographic to the left, we could potentially feed 7 billion people by being conscious of our actions and making some simple adjustments to our routines.

The video below sums up some  statistics in less than two minutes about how much food, energy and resources are wasted from the farm to the fridge in a people managed food system.